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April 10, 2025

Scrubs to startups: Nurse entrepreneurship requires balancing passion, leadership, innovation

Leadership and business skills are deeply intertwined—to some, that makes nurse-led ventures a sort of natural fit. The long-standing trend has been nurses becoming entrepreneurs after retirement, but that is changing. Today, more nurses are exploring entrepreneurship while maintaining their clinical roles, a shift that is reshaping traditional career pathways. Nurses, especially those new to the profession, are seeing entrepreneurship as a way to supplement their careers while maintaining flexibility.

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